The West chimes in and wrote:Failure to complete Perth’s “poorly maintained” bike paths is forcing the city’s growing number of cyclists on to unsafe routes and putting them at risk, an investigation by Auditor-General Colin Murphy has revealed.

mich rolling wrote:And yet Transport WA has stopped publishing bicycle usage data for the main bike paths, last update March 2014.http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/activetr ... /25730.aspAs I keep banging on about it, without data advocates and critics can say what they like without fear of being wrong.More cyclists are riding therefore more facilities are needed/fewer cyclists ride so forget about 'em.

I have notice they have fitted some different counters at locations over the last couple of years, maybe this explains figures not being produced, due to hiccups.

Hmmmm. The published data up to March 2014 includes a number of the new counters. The end of publishing data smells more of staff shortages than technical issues. Time to get the new labour force (unpaid unistudents on work experience) in to collate the data.

Two agency responses to the audit were:•The Transport Portfolio will finalise an implementation schedule and explore funding and resourcing options by the end of 2015. In addition a functional review within the Transport Portfolio is underway to ensure that the needs of cycling for transport are well covered to deliver the committed outcomes.•The initial WABN annual report will be published in late 2015. This will be expanded in 2016 and will be published on an annual basis.

Given there are not many working days until the end of 2015, anyone seen the implementation schedule or the initial WABN annual report etc?

rolandp wrote:Two agency responses to the audit were:•The Transport Portfolio will finalise an implementation schedule and explore funding and resourcing options by the end of 2015. In addition a functional review within the Transport Portfolio is underway to ensure that the needs of cycling for transport are well covered to deliver the committed outcomes.•The initial WABN annual report will be published in late 2015. This will be expanded in 2016 and will be published on an annual basis.

Given there are not many working days until the end of 2015, anyone seen the implementation schedule or the initial WABN annual report etc?

I received a response from Minister of Transport yesterday:The Minister has requested that the Department of Transport attend to the matter you have raised and respond to you directly.

That would be the same department that I have previously contacted last year, with no responses provided, resulting in me contacting Minister of Transport, including copies of the unanswered correspondence. These correspondence were prior to the Auditor General's report, but were asking questions relating to the WABNP schedule, and the condition of the PSP, which were both findings in the Auditor General Report.

7 weeks later and I have a response from the Minister's Office which I will partially quote below:

The WABN Annual Report is progressing well. The draft was presented to the WABN Implementation Reference Group for review and feedback in December 2015. The feedback received is being incorporated into the final version that is expected to be released in the near future.

The WABN implementation schedule is progressing. The outcomes of the cycling functional review, the WABN biennial review and the State mid-year financial review handed down in December 2015 need to be considered. This work is continuing and is planned for completion by June 2016.

So, no explanation for why these have been delayed but at least we have a rough idea of when they will be completed. I can only assume the delays are due to the fact that the Transport portfolio couldn't plan a piss-up in a brewery.

I suspect the issue lies in the political side of the transport portfolio more than the burueacratic side. If ther was a Minister demanding cycling investment like Vincent Mayor John Carey has been then it would happen. Sadly there isnt.

wellington_street wrote:I suspect the issue lies in the political side of the transport portfolio more than the burueacratic side. If ther was a Minister demanding cycling investment like Vincent Mayor John Carey has been then it would happen. Sadly there isnt.

Now if we could have tunnels for cycling that reduced congestion it might be a go

So, the Transport Portfolio's revised delivery timetable of 'in the near future' for the WABN annual report and June 2016 for the WABN Implementation Schedule have passed yet again with no documents sighted. I have written to the Minister to inquire where they are and why the Transport Portfolio would publically promise to deliver a schedule in 3 months when they can't manage to develop it in 9 months.

After a 2 month wait I received an answer as to where the 2015 WA Bicycle Network Annual Report is. And that answer is that they threw it in the bin (despite having a draft circulating to stakeholder groups in January) so they could work on improving their counting methodology. Apparently they are "about to commence" working on a 2015-2016 Annual Report for release by late October 2016.

I received no answer relating to the provision of an implementation schedule with a best case that it will be included in the Annual Report and a worst case that they are just not going to deliver one.

In the next 12 months, DoT should implement an improved strategy to collect, monitor and analyse data on cycling participation to inform planning and safety.

In the next two years:

DoT should identify demand for transport options to inform and finalise a transport planning framework for Perth, which integrates all forms of transport DoT and Main Roads should provide detailed construction and maintenance guidelines for cycling infrastructure to local government DoT should progress the review and development of Local Bicycle Routes in conjunction with LGAs the State Government should consider developing a central crash and hazard reporting facility for the public to record safety concerns that relate to cycling infrastructure DoT and RSC should work together to develop public awareness strategies to target safe cycling and mutual respect among all road users.

In the next five years, DoT and Main Roads should support and promote existing and new cycling infrastructure, including innovations being trialled by local government, to improve participation in cycling.

Almost 2 Years on and DoT have released a status update on their implementation of the portfolio actions that they undertook to complete in response to the Auditor General's findings. Unsurprisingly a considerable number of actions that were originally promised for completion in 2015 are now planned for completion late 2017.

Scott_C wrote:Almost 2 Years on and DoT have released a status update on their implementation of the portfolio actions that they undertook to complete in response to the Auditor General's findings. Unsurprisingly a considerable number of actions that were originally promised for completion in 2015 are now planned for completion late 2017.

It is now 2018. Anyone seen the items which had a revised schedule for completion in 2017? Note, these had an original schedule date of 2015, so surely DoT will have completed them now.

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